Field Measurements for Forest Carbon Monitoring

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Section I: Establishing a Landscape-scale Forest Carbon Monitoring Site.- Chapter 1: Defining a Landscape-scale Monitoring Tier for the North American Carbon Program.- Chapter 2: Study Site Characterization.- Chapter 3: Meteorological Measurements.- Section II: Measuring Aboveground Carbon Pools.- Chapter 4: Estimating Aboveground Carbon in Live and Standing Dead Trees.- Chapter 5: Measuring Carbon in Shrubs.- Chapter 6: Estimating the Carbon in Coarse Woody Debris with Perpendicular Distance Sampling.- Section III: Measuring Aboveground Carbon Fluxes.- Chapter 7: Measuring.- Litterfall and Branchfall.- Chapter 8: Methods for Estimating Litter Decomposition.- Chapter 9: Measuring Decay of Down Dead Wood.- Section IV: Measuring Belowground Carbon Pools and Fluxes.- Chapter 10: Measuring Forest Floor, Mineral Soil, and Coarse Root Carbon Stocks.- Chapter 11: Quantifying Soil Respiration at Landscape Scales.- Chapter 12: Measurement of Methane Fluxes from Terrestrial Landscapes Using Stating, Non-steady State Enclosures.- Chapter 13: Measurement and Importance of Dissolved Organic Carbon.- Section V: Supplemental Variables for Carbon Cycle Modeling.- Chapter 14: Forest Canopy Structural Properties.- Chapter 15: Estimation of Forest Canopy Nitrogen Concentration.- Section VI: Lessons from the Past and Opportunities in the Future.- Chapter 16: Integrating Field.- Measurements with Flux Tower and Remote Sensing Data.- Chapter 17: Landscape-scale Carbon Sampling Strategy -- Lessons Learned.- ndex